Summer song writing challenge

Listen up! We’re putting your song writing skills to the test. Your task is to write and record your very own geek summer hit single. You can cover any geek-related topic you like – think particle accelerators, Dr Who, trigonometry – but it must be all your own work. (You don’t have to be a musical genius, but we will award bonus points if you make us laugh.)

You’re encouraged to enlist the help of your entire office, science class or lab. Once you’ve penned your masterpiece, record it and send it to us in the form of a digital music file, You Tube video or plain old physical CD.

Not only will we play the winner’s song, in full, on the Geek Pop podcast, we’ll send you: £75 of Gadget Shop vouchers, a coveted Geek Pop Square t-shirt, 7Digital music vouchers for ten free downloads, Geek Pop pin badges for you and up to ten co-writers and an assortment of popular science books, including Poseidon’s Steed by Helen Scales, a signed copy of Big Bang by Simon Singh, Crisp Packet Fireworks by Chris Smith and Dave Ansell, and the “Introducing” series books for Stephen Hawking, Time and Darwin. Oh and of course, you get a big ol’ slice of glory pie. Mmm-mmmm.

PLUS! Extra prizes! The Graphic Science Most Contrived Rhyme Prize winner will receive £25 of Gadget Shop vouchers. And we at Geek Pop will award a Geek Pop pin badge to the songwriter of each valid entry.

HOW DO I ENTER? Send your MP3 file or You Tube link to crew@geekpop.co.uk or ask us for a postal address to send a CD. The deadline is 17:00 BST on 31 August 2010.

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